Freelance IT-consultant - Master degree level!

Details: born 1966-11-01, Danish citizenship, speciality is J2EE, math-physics student, educational background as M.Sc.EE, graduated 1995, will work abroad

Languages: Danish, English, German (needs refresh), French (needs refresh)

Keywords: "hit-the-ground-running" - dedicated teamplayer - always attitude "what can I do for you?" - integrity - sincerety - humbleness - calm, polite & professional

Profile: People use my services because I'm good at configuration & integration - with intense focus on business value for the customer/project! Worked in almost all roles - deep technical understanding of things - and for almost any problem, I can hack together a quick fix in relative short time. I really try to be a nice guy and have understanding for other peoples situation. Small & large projects. Public & private sector. Strong pressure or not. I take personal responsibility: whatever necesary to do - wherever to go - whoever to contact - whatever blame necessary to take for anybody - because I'm calm & professional - it's my job to keep technical focus and move the process forward. I'm trying to _be_ www.j2ee.dk, to be more than talk and deeply serious in this field!!

In short to remember:

• worked _with_ BEA for a decade - programming and tuning the server
• worked _for_ BEA Systems as their consultant
• _certified_ on BEA (together with other Sun J2EE certifications)

Worked in roles: J2EE developer, UML architect, AIX/Weblogic system operation supporter, technical tester, business case analyst

Worked in sectors: telecom, insurance, banks, finance, tax & duty, public sector citizen e-service, security system design

Certifications & education:

• M.Sc.EE from DTU with speciality in Computer Science and mathmatics
• Passed 310-051 (Sun J2EE Arkitekt, 1st test in series)
• Sun Certified Developer for Java 2 Platform (310-252A, 310-027)
• Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 Platform (310-025)
• BEA Certified Specialist: Server

Hands-on articles on privately hosted websites: j2ee.dk, designpatterns.dk, topsecurity.dk, cryptography.dk, whitepapers.dk

Historic record

• 2008.06 to (now) - 1 year so far: SCR consultant - Role: technical tester - Project: public sector, electronic citizen service. Technical support to the projects external users (various banks). Technical support to internal test team. Preparing test data, executing test (preparing Soap XML requests), analyzing logs, programming updates on log extraction tool, Technologies: Tinglysning (S2S and tinglysning.dk), J2EE, Webservices, OCES signature, UML. Tools: SoapUI Pro, Altova XML Spy, XML, XSD, DTD, Eclipse, SQL, Oracle, BEA Weblogic
• 2006.11 to 2008.06 (1 year, 7 months - continously) : ProData consultant - Role: J2EE designer and developer - Project: UML realization of usecases in appropriate webservice technology for Telecom client
  Architectural translation of usecases with business knowledge into J2EE application design - to outsourced subcontractor in India. Implemented parts which the subcontractor didn't handle. Analyzed data model. Technologies: UML, J2EE, Webservices, EJBQL, Soap, XML. Tools: Eclipse, IntelliJ, Enterprise Architect, Oracle, BEA Weblogic
• 2006.09 : 7N consultant - Role: troubleshooter - Project: troubleshooting DB2e in transport sector company.
  Did a setup review on (handheld device synchronization) performance bottlenecks in DB2e environment. Delivered 13-page report (excl. appendix), locating problem, suggesting changes and additional studies. Tools: HP4700 PDA, WinCE, DB2e, Websphere, WAS, DB2, J2EE, Wintel
• 2006.08 : 7N consultant - Role: middleware configurator - Project: WLI fixed-price job for Telecom client.
  Basicly a servicepack upgrade and a quick application service check of a BEA Weblogic/WLI/Suse Linux/Oracle installation. New drivers and reduction of overall memory footprint. Tools: BEA Weblogic WLI, BEA Workshop, Suse Linux, Oracle.
• 2005.05 to 2006.07: 7N consultant - Role: architect team member - Project: infrastructure in insurance company.
  Serving in the IT-Architectural group. All-round assignments. Troubleshooting on propritary system bugs in production through reverse-engineering. Simplifying Weblogic/Websphere MQ integration architecture (replaced MQ with native BEA JMS and J2EE ETC/extended transaction client) - later worked hard on stability problem troubleshooting. Network infrastructure setup with followup on firewall openings. Testcases for verification of network setup. BlutCoat setup analysis (reading raw extract config). Log consolidation. Recovery analysis of crashed CVS. Technologies: J2EE, Weblogic, IBM MQseries, webservices, BlueCoat, Eclipse.
• 2005.01 to 2005.08: BEA Systems Nordic consultant - Role: AIX/Linux/Weblogic system operations supporter - Project: support unit in bank/finance sector (Jyske Bank & Nykredit).
  "Hit-the-ground-running" allround-hand for 7 months on weblogic in AIX environment. Official BEA Systems consultant at JN-Data (operation support site for bank/finance: Jyske Bank & Nykredit). Management and troubleshooting (when WLS drops dead, applications don't run/communicate correctly, resolving configuration and performance issues,..). Handling initial response to alarms from surveillance regarding production problems (BEA server & portal). Resolving problems on-the-spot and/or analyze problems sufficiently for other people to take ownership of problems. Assisting when applying program changes to production. Technologies: J2EE, AIX, Weblogic 8.1, shell scripting, Java test programs,... whatever it takes to keep production flying and developers happy in their test-environment.
• 2000.03 to 2004.12: BULL consultant - Role: J2EE developer and BEA Weblogic supporter - Project: electronic registration of import/export for Danish Duty & Tax
  Specializing on security issues and Weblogic 4.5/5.1/7.1/8.1. Working in the developer department and equally assisting the inhouse AIX operation support unit. Various projects to handle electronically all trade between an EU member state and non-EU countries (import & export system). Troubleshooting problems relating to application/middleware: segment-faults, connection-loss, memory-leaks, single-point-of-failures, performance-issues (security related or not), stress-testing... Technologies: Weblogic, SSO, Security provider, passticket generator, session-id manager, JAAS, AIX, J2EE, Eclipse (from very first versions), Ant, fat client applet, servlet, Sun plugin, Webstart, Muffins, LDAP, Pearl, EJB 2.0 / 1.1, XDoclet, Domain model, Middlegen, Velocity, UML, design patterns, Ant, Sybase, RMI, Unit tests...
• 2000.02: IBM consultant - Role: J2EE developer and tester - Project: Copenhagen Fur Center auction house
  Bodyshopped on-location developer in a team of 10-15. Implementing print solution. Technologies: 3/9 barcode, J2ee, VisualAge for Java
• 1999.12: IBM consultant - Role: J2EE developer - Project: Østergård/Danish auto spareparts
  Website functionality maintenance. Techologies: servlets, SQL, DB/2, VisualAge for Java
• 1998.02 to 1998.11: IBM consultant - Nordea
  Bodyshopped on-location developer through continously 9 months.Teknologies: C++/Java, JNI, Visual Sourcesafe, Websphere, Network dispatcher, servlet, webserver load distribution, round-robin,..
• 1997.10: IBM consultant - Role: C++ developer - Project: Medi-care timeslot allocation application
  Health-care timeplanning program for medical staff. In a team of 5, my part was the graphical diagram presentation.Technologies: C++, OS/2 PM, Gantt-diagram print module (color) with pre-view option.
• 1997.05: IBM consultant - Role: CGI developer - Project: Public sector "Erhvervs & selskabsstyrelsen"
  Bodyshopped developer building (early-days) CGI web-site for on-line ordering of company information. Teknologies: CGI, REXX, JavaScript, HTML 3.2, sendmail
• 1997.04: IBM consultant - Role: J2EE developer - Project: BG Bank website applet
  Teknologies: JDK 1.1, Applet, HTML
• 1997.01: IBM consultant - Role: C++ developer - Project: "Danske Bank" dial-up home-banking solution
  Developer on a 3-4 person team. Update of existing homebanking application. Use-case driven business-logic changes - for the largest bank in Denmark ("Danske bank").Teknologies: C++, "GUI-Master" cross-platform class library, OS/2
• 1995.09: graduated with M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering (EE) from DTU. Main focus on computer science and mathematics
• 1986-91: programming intensively in C/C++/assembler on the i80x86 platform assembly, A86, interrupt 2/3/13/21, NMI, remote debugging, Turbo debugger, Periscope debugger, SoftIce, rs232, BIOS, device drivers programming (RAMDISK), TSR, FAT sector layout, hardware/software breakpoints, knew op-codes by heart. TurboC++, WatcomC++, GNU-C++, DJGPP, MASM, TASM, cross-pattform GUI libraries. MS-DOS Encyclopedia, Peter Norten assembler programming book, Stoustrup C++, undocumented 16-bit interrrupts in Win95,... I tried it all but failed to find any company which could make use of a skilled programmer.

Epitat: I take special caution to give plenty of "space" to others and never, never claim to be the best head around in any regard - but I always try to give myself 100% (higher number = empty talk)!